I had typed most of this up on my latest submission, but then I realised it would be best to just stick it in a journal. XD

Lately I've been noticing a lot of people have been putting the effort into taking my pics and coloring over them.I've added noise over the pics for a long time to prevent that, but lately people do it anyways.And I /know/ it must take forever to erase, because it covers the whole picture.And then they still give me credit, but it's like, klfsjd why would I add noise over the pic if I was just gunna let you recolor it anyways? ;w;

So, just be warned, I will report you if I see it, I don't find that stuff okay. :UThe only pictures that it's okay is my early 2009 Warriors pictures. That's it.And if credit isn't properly given I'll still report it.(By properly, I mean a link to my DA, not just "Lines by Blue," or "Credit to BlueKyoKitty")

Also, making "lineart" out of my stuff is never okay, even for the stuff I said could be colored over.Credit given or not, if you're passing around lineart of my work I will report you.

I know I've been given this reputation as someone who allows art theft, but I really don't find it okay, and I almost alway report it when I see it. When it's just people doing it to troll, yeah, I really don't care, I'll let them have their fun. But when it's people who arn't doing it to troll and really just don't know it's wrong, that's when I report them. owo

This is NOT to say, if you see a person recoloring my stuff that I want you to throw a huge fit at them.Just send me a link and I'll deal with it.Or, you could politely give them the link to this journal.You don't have to do anything beyond that.I posted this journal for the people who are already recoloring my stuff.Not as an excuse to get you guys to go rage at people.Also, if it's a "troll" just leave it be, say nothing, I don't really care all that much.

And I know that now that I'm finally sticking up for my art it's going to come back and bite me in the ass, as it always does.But whatevah, I think this journal was needed at some point.

Good job with the noise! Wasn't impossible to remove though but still difficult as hell. That's a really good idea though. I'll have to think about that if someone tries to steal my stuff. Sorry about the art theft I'll inform you if I see any.

well said. Art theft is never fun, especially when not credited. my art isn't good enough for some people who want to steal it, so its not a problem for me, but for internet sensations like you.. well, they don't get the pressure. i hope the uncredited stuff they use won't go any further!

I've never taken art theft seriously, which is why so much of my stuff has been recolored.This isn't something that greatly bothers me, I mostly just let people do what they want, but I figured it was about time to at least let people know I'm not totally okay with it. XD

I used to be an art thief and I know how people feel when I stole their art and claimed it as my own. it was very immature of me, pretty stupid too. I'm glad I eventually found my own talent.... regardless being porn

when I talked to an art theif not too long ago I found her excuse pathedic but yet sad,

whatsherface:I only re-color beause it helps me become a better artist!but the art is mine!Me:You just admitted you recolored the pictures like 5000 timesher:NO!I colored them theyre mine!I swear people are so stupid now

Thank yoouu.Umm, I saw a group picture lineart of some warriors and it wasn't credited at all, not even with a name and I know nobody's allowed to make l/a so I'll go though my favs and find it and send you a link.

"(By properly, I mean a link to my DA, not just "Lines by Blue," or "Credit to BlueKyoKitty")"

So...The big difference for you in art theft is someone typing in *Agoraphobic-Blue over "Lines are (c) to Agoraphobic-blue on dA" ? Because you just made the comparison that if they LINK THE PAGE, and make it so others don't have to type in the URL, suddenly it becomes acceptable.

Sounds pretty odd. Might want to rephrase that, since people will likely misunderstand it as: "OH HEY GUYS ITS FINE IF YOU COPY AND TRACE MY WORK AND USE MY OLD STUFF. JUST REMEMBER, LINK TO MY DA. :E "

They are free to just put "Lines (c) Agoraphobic-blue" >>What I'm saying, is that putting "picture by Blue" or "picture by BlueKyoKitty", is no way for a person to give me credit, as not all that many people even know of who this "Blue" is, and it's giving no one any way to find my page.

I said it was okay to use like, seven of the pictures that I made over three years ago as lineart. Not my whole gallery, not everything anyone has ever made in Paint, only a couple very old, horribly drawn pictures that I made. People make lineart and offer it free to the public as long as credit is given, that's all I am doing with those couple of pictures.

I'm confused. Why not simply tell someone, who doesn't know it's wrong, that's it wrong and ask them to take it down nicely instead of just ninja reporting? I understand reporting on someone who is claiming it as theirs, legitimately stealing it (not a troll) and they understand it's wrong and are just hoping not to get caught. I'm confuuuused.

I simply don't like commenting people it makes me hella nervouse to ask people to do anything. I'm extreamly shy and really just like drifting around unnoticed firing my reports from a distance. ;; (Mostly joking there)

If a person has a gallery filled with recolored stuff, I normaly do end up asking them to stop, though I don't keep track of things, so likely I will never know if it was taken down, so I normaly report it anyways. DA takes days to get to anything anyways, so if they planned to take it down, they would.

2009 Warriors art. So not all my gallery from 2009, just the Warriors. (And I've placed all my Warriors stuff in one folder, so it's easy to find X3)And only some of the stuff from the first half of the year.I'd probably ask someone to take something down if it was a peice I'd rather not be colored. XD

Alright, thanks so much! Also I used your style for two of my pictures, i'll give you the link in a second and see if it was alright I did so. I gave you credit, but if you want me to put it down i will. NOW! I MUST GO TALK TO CARROTS! X3, lol wut

Yep, 2 years ago (I was like 11 years old) I used to recolor mostly every picture made on MS paint by someone else.I felt like a big artist but when I looked on the original pictures I told to myself that this is not me and deleted them all. I found that I have something like talent and started at drawing my own stuff. I wasn't talentless but stupid and lazy before until I found my own style.

I honestly find it disgusting how people think it's okay to even try to trace someone's work. It's like they don't think of the consequences."Another person drew this but I changed the colours so that makes it okay"- er, no it doesn't! It's called theft, people!Sometimes people need to really think for once. They drive me up the wall.